The Crackers

Early Days of Atlanta Baseball

By: Tim Darnell, Bill Shipp (Foreword by), Bobby Dew (Afterword by)

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Paperback | 15 May 2012

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224 Pages

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Beginning in an era before traffic jams, air-conditioning, and Atlanta&rsquo;s ascension to international fame, Tim Darnell chronicles the emergence of amateur and minor-league baseball in various forms in Atlanta from just after the Civil War through the rise of the Crackers (1901&ndash;65). Through never-before-published player interviews, rare illustrations, extensive charts and statistics, and thorough research, Darnell examines the drama and politics that affected the Crackers over the years. Also profiled is the Black Crackers, Atlanta&rsquo;s Negro Southern League franchise whose success and popularity paralleled those of their white counterparts. The Crackers is a light-hearted, fun, and engrossing history of a time, a people, and one very special centerfield magnolia tree whose stories are legend to this day. Includes a Crackers Trivia Quiz, and appendices with records and statistics.

Industry Reviews

[Crackers] serves as a springboard for all manner of wild, outrageous, incisive, iconoclastic observations about the South in particular and the American Reality in general.

--Library Journal

Page for page, Roy Blount is as funny as anyone I've read in a long time.

--Norman Mailer

Roy Blount, Jr., establishes himself as a major humorist.

--William F. Buckley Jr.

The best of Blount--and Blount at his best.

--Tom Wolfe

The funniest book I've read in a decade.

--Harry Crews

This book contains pop zest and folk wisdom . . . deep-dish country humor and acute sensibility. . . . Like Mark Twain, [Blount] pits the sagacity and saltiness of the cracker barrel against the smooth, evasive rhetoric of the soapbox.

--New Republic

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